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... the ... while the CEO is our snacking than a kiss a text that said the findings from the law Street Journal's annual compensation survey of ... more CEO this Ummah the pay increase is an award Tied to future financial performance ... the fallout from increased public scrutiny ... but not liking eighties corporate Titans are struggling with real mediate EO pain went up five point five percent ... to eleven point four million dollars last year ... with more analysis is the law Street Journal's Theo Francis ... the air thanks for being here ... thanks ... I really had to Yellen would top the list last year while the high-speed CNS ... well there's some familiar names are on them at the top the list as Larry Ellison of Oracle ... Leslie Moonves is CBS is next and then Michael freeze the Liberty Global ... those three men together made about a hundred and eighty eight million dollars in twenty thirteen that was ... more slightly more ... than the fifty CEOs at the bottom of our list of three hundred companies telling family can see Larry Ellison airplane unit needed only eighty million dollars allowing that's a lot ... that the EC as the pay increases were a little bit more moderate what's behind ... right well with a big part of that is the isthe big push for pay for performance a lot of company law Board a lot of shareholders ... are increasingly asking that CEO is ... debt held to a fairly rigorous standard of getting paid more ... when the company does well in getting paid less for not getting paid as much anyway ... when when the company doesn't do as well and so far you're seeing now on the upside as ... we had a pretty good run in the stock market lately ... CEOs have done pretty well ... the real question is whether and how much that turnaround if and when the market market reversals on the thing people been paying attention to is how CEO is the case compared to the workers at their company is self ... in a cotton candy in the five point five percent ... increase in pay this year had any American after that the average American worker due in twenty thirteen ... yet not that while on average earn the median or the average private sector worker saw their pay go up just a little under two percent ... in twenty thirteen ... I not quite as well as the CEO is only now that with the Sierras also it's not just about the paychecks there always perks to get ahead of the company ... this act of last year ... well her there's still something of a a and that maybe not a secret that the but not such a a popular element pay right now you see a lot of the brain and and but one that seems to be making a little bit of a comeback is the of the pride for rides on company jets you're seeing Bank a few more a few more companies ... getting their CEO of those purchasing I love the ... little bit of an increase in the dollar on a high and ... when it comes to flying in the company to ... the SF we have to cover these guys who don't make all that much for being CLF the ... guy at the bottom of lights ... when you have the of a couple different groups at the bottom of the less there are some people who simply aren't ... doing that while the performance of the night in that scene there that that's what their pay to drop its stupid ... we also have a lot of companies were the founders or CEOs who simply have a lot of stock already ... and their boards and they don't really see a lot of ... purpose and giving them ... a lot more pay each year so they may not actually get much worse than any in some cases ... their three CEOs on this list to run large companies ... nonetheless they deducted ... essentially zero last year ... so as the making ... of those two groups and also have a handful people simply don't make a lot of them for performance is good ... yes